For the Frilly & Funky Challenge for August 2, 2017, we are to: "create a vintage or shabby chic project that depicts a favorite book ... use book pages..., alter a book or even make a journal or journal page! Just be sure it's in the vintage or shabby chic style..."

Yes, as a matter of fact, I have read a few good books lately --- not literature, but summer binge reading by three authors new to me: Peter May, Nageeba Davis and Mary Kay Andrews (although I knew the former author from an earlier series written under the name Kathy Trochek). All but the first Nageeba Davis, which I found in my "library" in hard cover, were on my iPad apps (I have Kindle, Nook and iBooks!). I have finished all I can find by Davis, and am working on a second series by Andrews and have loaded all the follow-ons to the Peter May book for later reading!

​Kind of hard to portray any of these in a project, though, so I opted for slightly funky and completely generic!

​I started with a background using a Tim Holtz Damask stamp and two different kinds of ink (using Distress Oxide "Antique Linen" and my MISTI several times and followed by an double - and random - overstamping of Distress Ink "Old Paper") to create the look of a faded damask wallpaper in a library. I spritzed it with water to make the Distress Oxide run a bit, heat-dried it, and mounted it on glittery gold paper:

I then created a card base using a pre-folded dark red notecard and a scrap of metallic gold card. I mounted the damask background on the card base and added a fussy-cut stack of books (stamped in Archival Ink and colored with Distress Markers) and a sentiment:

I love this beautiful damask background, Carol! And I enjoyed reading about your summer reading program! Thank you so much for sharing your artwork in my Have You Read Any Good Books Lately challenge at Frilly and Funkie! Hugs! Sara Emily

This is so gorgeous Carol! I love the damask background which works perfectly with the sentiment and pile of books. Thank you for joining us at Frilly and Funkie xx

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Born in New Jersey, I grew up in Southeastern Ohio. Attended university at Bowling Green State University (B.Sci in biological science, 1964), University of Southern California (M. Sci in biological science, 1967) and University of Florida (Ph. D in zoology, 1971).Worked in environmental consulting for a little more than a decade and then seven years as an instructor in biological science at various community colleges in California and Texas. Moved to London in 1992, then Beijing (1996) and Saudi Arabia (1998), before returning to NW Ohio in 2002. I am currently living in NW Ohio with my husband and three Bombay cats. I love to read (mystery, science fiction, history) and stitch (have done crewel, currently experimenting with free embroidery and needlepoint but blackwork and cross stitch are my main genres); have been known to knit; and now I'm heavily into papercrafting!Retired upon the return to the US so lots of time for our hobbies...